Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 2020
Our contact details
www.chinaresearchgroup.org is a website operated by China Research Group Limited (China Research Group). Our registered address is 24 Nelson St, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom, LE16 9AY. Our registration number is 12604006.
What type of information do we collect?
We currently collect and process the following information:
Name
Email address
Telephone number
Location
Job title and organisation (if you register for a CRG event)
We may collect special categories of personal information, including personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin and/or political opinions.
We may collect information that is available in the public domain, for example: newspaper or online media items, publicly available posts on social media or Companies House listings.
How do we get the information and why do we have it?
Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:
You sign up to our newsletter
Engage with social media
Register for an event
Contact us
We also receive personal information indirectly, from the following sources in the following scenarios:
You contact a member or affiliate of the CRG
Your visit to our social media or website
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
(a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by unsubscribing from the newsletter and/or contacting office@chinaresearchgroup.org
(b) We have a legitimate interest.
What we do with the information we have
We use the information that you have given us in order to:
To send you marketing information about our latest activities, news and opportunities, where we have your consent or are otherwise allowed to do this;
To communicate with event attendees and prospective attendees before, during and after our events to provide you with information about those events or to seek your feedback on events that you have attended;
For administrative purposes (for example, relating to your attendance at an event or the data we hold about you);
To analyse and improve the content and operation of our website and our internal business processes;
To analyse and improve the content and operation of our website and our internal business processes.
Do we share your data with anyone else?
We may need to provide your information to service providers or other associated organisations who provide services on our behalf, to the extent necessary to enable you to receive those services.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
How we store your information
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure that the information disclosed to us is kept secure, accurate and up to date and kept only for so long as is necessary for the purposes for which it is used.
We will retain your information for as long as you have an active relationship with the China Research Group. If you cease to have an active relationship with us or request to receive no further contact, we will retain only the basic information required in order to avoid sending you unwanted materials in the future.
Your data protection rights
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Please contact us office@chinaresearchgroup.org if you wish to make a request.
Use of cookies
What do we use cookies for?
We may use cookies to remember personal settings you have chosen at our website. In no other context do we use cookies to collect information that identifies you personally. Most of the cookies we set are automatically deleted from your computer when you leave our website or shortly afterwards.
We use anonymous session cookies (short-term cookies that disappear when you close your browser) to help you navigate the website and make the most of the features. If you log into the website, application or a course as a registered user, your session cookie will also contain your user ID so that we can check which services you are allowed to access.
This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.
Should users wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website onto their computer’s hard drive, they should take necessary steps within their web browser’s security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.
Changes to this privacy notice
We may update the terms of this policy at any time, so please check it from time to time. We will update the top of the privacy policy with a “last updated” date after every change to the policy. By continuing to use our website, you will be deemed to have accepted such changes.
How to complain
You can contact us directly on office@chinaresearchgroup.org. You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113